Amy Fisher

Amy Fisher has won the support of prosecutors in her motion to vacate her assault conviction--and also the backing of the woman she shot in the head. Mary Jo Buttafuoco joined prosecutors in the motion on behalf of Fisher, who said she was denied effective legal advice when she pleaded guilty to first-degree assault. Fisher has been in jail for almost seven years for shooting Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover. The case drew national attention and she was dubbed the "Long...

With a sordid "true story" of sex, violence and Mormonism tailor-made for TV-movie treatment, "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret" makes no apologies for its obligatory exploitation. Twenty years ago, the major networks would've been fighting for the rights to Arias' tawdry tale, and conflicting points of view could have inspired multiple pics Ã la Amy Fisher. In 2013, Lifetime has the market all to itself and the cabler should reap the ratings rewards with a timely -- and undeniably trashy...

A New York parole board rejected Amy Fisher's first chance at parole, saying she has not proved she would stay out of trouble if released after five years in prison. "There is a reasonable probability that you would not live and remain at liberty without violating the law," the parole board at the Albion Correctional Facility told Fisher Thursday. "Your release at this time is incompatible with the welfare and safety of the community." Fisher, 22, was sentenced to 5 to...

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Amy Fisher seduced a guard as part of a plan to win a transfer to a prison closer to her home, a fellow inmate testified. Fisher claims she was repeatedly raped at Albion Correctional Facility in Buffalo, N.Y., where she is serving a 5- to 15-year sentence for wounding Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her then-boyfriend, Joey Buttafuoco, in 1992. The case made national headlines in tabloids that dubbed her the "Long Island Lolita." Lillian "Lucky" Nieves,...

Ah, the power of love. Makes you giddy, makes you miserable, or -- in the case of some folks -- makes you out-and-out loony. Theirs is a brand of passion destined for TV-movieland ("based on a true story" and starring Anne Heche), or better yet, the Oxygen Network, which has an entire reality series built around women who murder their men. It's called "Snapped!" Astronaut Lisa Nowak -- she of the BB gun, trench coat and diapers -- may be the current poster girl for that kind of crazy, but...

Amy Fisher, in prison for shooting her ex-lover's wife, says she deserves a new trial because she played sex games with her former lawyer. In papers filed in Nassau County Court in New York on Tuesday, the "Long Island Lolita" says she engaged in kissing, fondling and fantasy role-playing games with attorney Eric Naiburg and that fogged his legal judgment. She said they did not have intercourse. Naiburg fiercely denied her claims Wednesday. "It's all lies," he...

- Amy Fisher says she was strung out on Ecstasy when she shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco, her boyfriend's wife, in the face in 1992. "I was using Ecstasy, a lot of Ecstasy," Fisher, who was 16 at the time, told "Entertainment Tonight" this week. "I had no control." - Anderson Cooper, like Christiane Amanpour before him, will become an occasional contributor to CBS' "60 Minutes" while keeping his job at CNN, according to a TVWeek.com report. - Snoop Dogg was held briefly after a fracas Wednesday over access to a...

Amy Fisher, the Long Island teenager who pleaded guilty to shooting her lover's wife, has requested a trial on grounds that prosecutors have broken a promise to free her by now. Her lawyer, Bruce A. Barket, asked that Fisher's 5-year-old plea be tossed out and that she be freed from prison on bail. "The district attorney made promises to her that were not kept," Barket said Wednesday, referring to a plea bargain. He has filed a motion in Nassau County Court asking for the...

Amy Fisher, a.k.a. "Long Island Lolita," and Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco have agreed to appear in a televised reunion. You may recall that more than a decade ago, Fisher, 17, slept with the married Joey and shot Mary Jo in the face. "It's time to just put it behind us," Fisher, now 31, told the New York Post for Monday editions. The reunion, however, has yet to be sold to a network, producer David Krieff told the Post. Buttafuoco, who was jailed for statutory rape...

Last Monday, she was running from one mall to the next, looking for a Power Rangers costume -- it had to be red -- for her 3-year-old to wear on Halloween. She's just like any other young Long Island mom. Except that was the day her book came out. And she is -- or was -- Amy Fisher. In the five years since she was released from prison for shooting her married lover's wife in the face, Fisher has changed her name and Social Security number, gone to college, married and...

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Amy Fisher, who at 17 became the headline "Long Island Lolita" after shooting her lover's wife in the head, was granted parole Thursday after nearly seven years in prison. Officials said she would be released within one week from the western New York prison where she is being held. "She's been served (with the decision) this morning and granted release," state Parole Board spokesman Thomas Grant said. The three-member parole panel, which interviewed Fisher on Tuesday,...

Joey Buttafuoco is working on ABC's "Desperate Housewives" -- at the show's concession stand. Buttafuoco, 49, who made headlines in the early 1990s when his teenage girlfriend shot his wife in the face, is working in craft services on the Hollywood sets of TV shows, according to a story in the latest issue of Inside TV magazine. Buttafuoco runs a concession that doles out protein shakes and ice cream to the stars of "Desperate Housewives" and "Crossing Jordan," the magazine reports.

The Nassau County district attorney's office was to charge Joseph Buttafuoco on Thursday in the statutory rape of Amy Fisher, the Long Island teenager now in prison for shooting Buttafuoco's wife, according to people close to the highly publicized case. Buttafuoco is to be charged with having sex with Fisher in July 1991, when she was 16. The move came after a grand jury voted to indict Buttafuoco, said people close to him. Buttafuoco, 37, was informed of the charges late...

Leslea Newman, a prolific author of books for readers of all ages but especially children and teens, has tackled the troubling subject of sexual relationships between teen girls and adult men in her latest novel, "Jailbait" (Delacorte Press). No stranger to controversy, Newman, 49, also wrote one of the most banned classics for children, "Heather Has Two Mommies," a positive portrayal of a lesbian family. WN talked to Newman on the telephone from her Massachusetts home...

After a name change and a new $15,000 face, the former "Long Island Lolita" returns to the media spotlight, writing columns under the name that made her infamous: Amy Fisher. Fisher's column runs in The New Island Ear, a 64-page free weekly that launched May 23 covering "entertainment, lifestyle and news." Just 17 when she shot and wounded lover Joey Buttafuoco's wife in 1992, Fisher is now a single mother and fledgling columnist for the 40,000-circulation Ear. Hiring...

When Amy Fisher agreed to plead guilty to the 1992 shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, she said she believed she had a promise from the Nassau County district attorney to help her win early parole and entry into a work-release program. Now she says District Atty. Denis Dillon has broken that promise and she wants to vacate her guilty plea and proceed to a trial, although she has spent more than 5 1/2 years in prison. Fisher is serving a sentence of 5 to 15...